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4/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
The most surprising and impressive thing about "Gravity" isn't its scale, its suspense, or its sense of wonder; it's that, in its heart, it is not primarily a film about astronauts, or space, or even a specific catastrophe."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Newlyweeds (2013) |
"
It's a special movie. Odd, disjointed and not entirely coherent, but special."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
86%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
The end product is a psychological thriller that's light on thrills and psychology."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Our Nixon (2013) |
"
Often plays like a mortifying companion to the Nixon-period sitcom "The Wonder Years.""
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Sep 2, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
The characterization and dialogue are atrocious, the filmmaking is fashionably busy, and there's a lazy cynicism to the picture that sours its thrills."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
A rare film that's as much fun as you've heard."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
It's the sort of film in which "We've got a lot of lines to paint, and it's a very long road" is clearly about more than it seems to be about."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Aug 13, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
71%
|
Frankenstein's Army (2013) |
"
It's a bravura if deeply silly demonstration of what clever moviemakers can do on meager resources."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Stranded (2013) |
"
When the opening action sequence ends, you expect the film to back up or at least circle around eventually and tell us who these people are, and it never does."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
25%
|
Copperhead (2013) |
"
I wish "Copperhead" were better, because it tells a story we haven't seen before, and creates a world that films have rarely shown us."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
Once you accept that orcas are intelligent and emotionally complex creatures, it becomes impossible to shrug off the film's darker factoids as the cost of keeping families entertained."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Turbo (2013) |
"
There's nothing new here, just old stuff in a new-ish package. This movie's enjoyable, but never as daring or bizarre as it could have been."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 17, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
Pacific Rim knows what sort of film it wishes to be; it is that film, and much more."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
100 Bloody Acres (2013) |
"
This is a smartly written and acted and exceptionally well-directed movie."
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
It's as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's "1941"-and, I'll bet, as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years from now, and described as "misunderstood.""
—
RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
If you need proof that sometimes more can be less, here you go."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
[It] is true to the spirit of the original film, "Monsters Inc.", and matches its tone. But it never seems content to turn over old ground."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
The movie delivers on the promise of its title and then some."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Violet & Daisy (2013) |
"
A thriller that might as well have been released in 1996, when everybody and their brother and their sister and their cousin twice-removed was trying to be Quentin Tarantino ..."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Jun 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
It's no classic, but it's a special movie: spectacular and wise."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
"
Whether the biopic Behind the Candelabra ends up being a swan song for director Steven Soderbergh or merely the last entry in one phase of a long career, it's an impressive work."
—
New York Magazine
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
|
47%
|
Phil Spector (2013) |
"
Pacino and Mirren's teamwork keeps Phil Spector watchable even when it's dousing itself in dramatic ethanol and lighting a match."
—
Vulture
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is one of the most aggressively self-conscious summer blockbusters ever made."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Even when the movie's not working, its style fascinates. That "not working" part is a deal breaker, though ..."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The new film's not great, but it's consistently involving because the tonal shifts are so abrupt."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
93%
|
Top of the Lake (2013) |
"
It's only March, but I already expect the Sundance Channel miniseries Top of the Lake to make my year-end "Top 10" list."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
32%
|
Everybody Has a Plan (2013) |
"
Its relaxed air of menace, and occasional bursts of violence hold one's attention even when the plot falters, which is often."
—
Chicago Sun-Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) |
"
In the shadow of such sickness, all the personal dramas can't help but pale, but there are still surprising and powerful moments."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
|
65%
|
Game Change (2013) |
"
The movie is so smart and ethical that I wish it were better."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2012
|
|
|
85%
|
George Harrison: Living In The Material World () |
"
It's a problematic, at times off-putting, but ultimately fascinating work, moving through George's life with its own mysterious internal logic."
—
Salon.com
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
—
|
62%
|
Salt (2010) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
|
73%
|
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
"POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold" is the movie Morgan Spurlock was put on earth to make."
—
Salon.com
Posted Apr 21, 2011
|
|
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
Just beautiful."
—
House Next Door
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
|
32%
|
For Colored Girls (2010) |
"
Perry never solves the stage-to-screen translation problem. But the path he has chosen is as intriguing as it is irksome, and it works better than you might expect."
—
Salon.com
Posted Nov 4, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Ne change rien (2010) |
"
Ne Change Rien is about the work, the mix of inspiration and hard labor that performers draw on from moment to moment, an alchemical event that cinema rarely shows. "
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2010
|
|
|
55%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) |
"
In a perverse but amusing way, Money Never Sleeps sometimes seems like film noir for CNBC junkies."
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 24, 2010
|
|
|
82%
|
Solitary Man (2010) |
"
Koppleman and his co-director, David Levien, hit the right tone early -- empathetic yet brutally honest -- and Douglas' absorbing, minutely detailed performance sustains it."
—
Salon.com
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Teza () |
"
He doesn't just reject political, philosophical, sexual, racial and spiritual dogma of every sort. He seems to view dogma itself as the one true evil: the ideological armor of bullies throughout history; the enemy of freedom, of art, of happiness itself."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 2, 2010
|
|
—
|
67%
|
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2008) |
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 14, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
The Ruins (2008) |
"
More disgusting than scary, The Ruins is the latest in a long line of horror films about upper-middle-class travelers being terrorized in unfamiliar environments."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 7, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
18%
|
Chapter 27 (2007) |
"
Any film that dares attempt a nonjudgmental portrait of John Lennon's assassin would most likely be accused of tastelessness, but in the case of Chapter 27 the charges are justified."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
47%
|
Run Fatboy Run (2007) |
"
The kind of movie that's apt to be dismissed a goofy lark. It is that. But it's also a rare comedy that believes in its own message, and that could inspire the depressed and the demoralized to grit their teeth and keep running."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
Shotgun Stories (2007) |
"
Shotgun Stories defines the classic western phrase 'doing what a man's got to do' as both a moral imperative and a biological compulsion."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Planet B-Boy (2007) |
"
Still, from moment to moment, Planet B-Boy is fun, sometimes thrilling and packed with illuminating details and striking personalities"
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
The Hammer (2007) |
"
Carolla has a tendency to riff when he should be acting, and the whole project is rambling and disorganized. At the same time, though, The Hammer also has dry wit and unforced working-class swagger, and hits some surprising emotional notes."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
51%
|
Doomsday (2008) |
"
Doomsday is frenetic, loud, wildly imprecise and so derivative that it doesn't so much seem to reference its antecedents as try on their famous images like a child playing dress-up. Homage without innovation isn't homage, it's karaoke."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Sputnik Mania (Sputnik) (The Fever of 57) (2007) |
"
David Hoffman's documentary Sputnik Mania is an account of that Soviet satellite's effect on the American consciousness."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2008
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2008) |
"
In Search of Paradise portrays Meat Loaf as an obsessive, self-punishing performer, striving in vain to put on a live show that matches the visions in his head."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 12, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"
Shot in battlefield hospitals in Iraq and rehab centers in the United States, Fighting for Life takes an unflinching look at the physical sacrifices of soldiers and marines."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2008
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